Flags of Our Fathers

I'm not a big movie goer, maybe 1 in a year. I saw this over the weekend and was really surprised, an amazing movie. The first thing I noticed was no one talking thru the entire film I mean nobody. The movie ended and the silence continued the audience was in awe as was I. It really tells an important and relevent story. One of the best films I've seen in years.

ps: Moderator If I'm not supposed to plug a movie please remove this post and I apologize. It's just that I'm not impressed easily and this one got to me.

RoadKing said:

I'm not a big movie goer, maybe 1 in a year. I saw this over the weekend and was really surprised, an amazing movie. The first thing I noticed was no one talking thru the entire film I mean nobody. The movie ended and the silence continued the audience was in awe as was I. It really tells an important and relevent story. One of the best films I've seen in years.

ps: Moderator If I'm not supposed to plug a movie please remove this post and I apologize. It's just that I'm not impressed easily and this one got to me.

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Good info, I for one, appreciate it... I had planned on seeing it myself, but wanted to hear what people thought of it first...

I went to a movie like that once. It was so quiet in the theater, that you could have heard a pin drop....... That movie was so bad that it put everyone to sleep......

Silly question, but what is the move about?

Directed by Clint Eastwood (sp?), about the men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima and their lives during the war (both in battle and what "service" was required by them by their goverment "touring" the U.S after the battle, still during the war, to raise "funds" by the American people).

Listen to Johnny Cash's "Ira Hayes" and you should get a pretty good "jist" of what the movie is about.

Mr. Eastwood also directed "Letters from Iwo Jima", about the same battle, but from the perspective from the Japeneese (sp?) that will be out in theaters next year.

Book is great reading material, about the effects of war on men. Have not seen the movie, but looking forward to it, and the "follow up" movie as well.